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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17-22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What objects take up "every available space" (102) in the headquarters of the Memory Police?
(a) Guns.
(b) Mirrors.
(c) Pennants.
(d) Knives.

2. Who is NOT the subject of one of the novelist narrator's three books that she has published thus far?
(a) A young woman caring for her ill brother.
(b) A ballerina with one leg.
(c) A piano tuner.
(d) A doctor.

3. The narrator feels especially nervous in Chapter 17 when the Memory Police search which piece of furniture?
(a) A dining room table.
(b) A desk.
(c) A cabinet.
(d) A bed.

4. In Chapter 18, the narrator uses which of her five senses to put R under surveillance?
(a) Her sense of smell.
(b) Her touch.
(c) Her sight.
(d) Her hearing.

5. The unnamed narrator of The Memory Police states in Chapter 1 that her mother had been what type of artist?
(a) A painter.
(b) A sculptor.
(c) A dancer.
(d) A poet.

Short Answer Questions

1. The old man declares that what weather had been helpful in getting R smuggled into the narrator's home?

2. How many days after the natural disasters does the narrator spot the Inuis?

3. When Chapter 19 begins, the narrator states that how many weeks have "passed since the old man's birthday party" (171)?

4. The music box featured in Chapter 16 has "four small legs resembling" what type of animal's "paws" (143)?

5. R tells the unnamed narrator at the end of Chapter 8 that he has not taken what action?

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